Bones Quiz
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Frontal bones
-form forehead, eye sockets, most of the front of the cranial floor -frontal sinuses lie deep within the bone
Parietal bones
-forms sides and roof of the cranial cavity -separated on top of skull by the saggital suture
Temporal bones
-form lower sides of the cranium and part of the cranial floor -external auditory meatus (ear canal) is located within these bones
Mastoid process
-behind external auditory meatus and is a point of neck muscle attachment
Styloid process
-point of neck and tongue muscle and ligament process
Mandibular fossa
-forms 1/2 of the temporomandibular joint within the mandible (lower jaw bone)
Occipital bone
-forms posterior part and most of cranial base -foremen magnum passes through this bone -occipital condyles are on either side of the foremen -magnum that connects with the first vertebrae
doesn’t belong to axis
pectoral
what suture connects frontal to parietal
coronal
tube like passageway within bone
meatus
narrow ridge like projection
crest
enlargement on end of bone
head
small knob like process
tubercle
tiny pit or depression
fovea
small flat process
facet
occipital to parietal
lambdoid
mastoid process
temporal
superorbital foremen
frontal
foremen magnum
occipital
cristi galli
ethmoid
sella turisca
sphenoid
gland in sella turisca
pituitary
keystone bone
sphenoid
bumps in maxilla and mandible
avelor process